By now the public has become well acquainted with the long running circus that has been performing in the Stann Creek Valley for the better part of forty years. But make no mistake: while the unruly antics of citrus growers may at times be laughable, behind the comedy is a hundred million dollar a year […]
A knife fight in San Pedro over the weekend has left one man dead. According to island cops, around eight-thirty on Saturday night, twenty-two year old Dison Ezer Diaz was socializing with friends in the D.F.C. area when he and another man started to scuffle. When the dust settled, Diaz had been stabbed once to […]
Tonight local authorities are liaising with their Interpol counterparts to verify reports that Belize City businessman Hassan El Sayed has died in Lebanon. According to family and friends, El Sayed was travelling between Tripoli and Beirut when he saw an accident on the side of the highway. Apparently El Sayed stopped to help, but in […]
A security breach in North America has resulted in the mass cancellation of credit cards worldwide, including Belize. The cards, both Visa and Mastercards, issued by Scotiabank in Belize, total between one hundred fifty and two hundred. The bank’s international headquarters began contacting cardholders by phone over the weekend, telling customers that their existing cards […]
Four days after his brutal murder, today members of the media and the legal community joined family and friends to pay their last respects to veteran court reporter, Richard Hulse. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting This afternoon forty-seven year old Richard Rodney Hulse was laid to rest following services at the Holy Redeemer Cathedral. The mass was […]
For months, potholes have exceeded the amount of pavement on Fort Street. But thanks to combined efforts by the Belize City Council and the Tourism Village over the weekend, things appear to be on the road to recovery. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Kendra Griffith, Reporting On Saturday, the Belize City Council began working on […]
Tonight Belize City police are investigating a report that an administrator of St. Michael’s College pulled a gun on two students. According to Amalia Aldana, the mother of one of the students, on Friday morning she received a disturbing phone call from her seventeen year old son telling her to come to school because there […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The National Football Team is readying itself to participate in the 2007 UNCAF Nations Cup Tournament and will leave the Jewel for El Salvador tomorrow, by way of TACA. After beating Inter Playa Del Carmen of Quintana Roo 1-0 at Chetumal, Team Belize concluded the […]
